A postoperative patient is continuing to have incisional pain.As part of the nurse's assessment,the nurse notes that the patient is grimacing when he or she changes position.The patient's grimace can be useful in the assessment and can be described as which of the following?

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Grimacing is a cue.A cue is information that a nurse obtains through use of the senses.An inference is your judgment or interpretation of these cues.Gordon's functional health patterns are a type of database format to obtain a comprehensive assessment.A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual,family,or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes that the nurse is licensed and competent to treat.

A Postoperative Patient Is Continuing to Have Incisional Pain